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GIVE THE PILOT SITES A CHANCE TO FILL IN THE UNKNOWNS OF NHS DIRECT...
I read with interest Jeremy Dale's article on telephone services, ('Wired for sound', pages 24-27, 29 January). His analysis quite correctly draws attention to the yet to be defined parameters for NHS Direct, and the yet to be answered questions on the likely outcome of its introduction. This is why ...
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Scottish trust chair 'resigns over cuts'
A Scottish trust chair has resigned, allegedly in protest at planned service cuts.
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Is Cap'n Dobson set to jump ship to HMS London? BY MICHAEL WHITE
Another turbulent seven days culminating in those weekend reports that, yes, hospital waiting lists are still growing, by 1,000 a week if figures compiled by Lib Dem health spokesman Simon Hughes are to be believed. It is proving just as hard to slow down and reverse the Atlantic liner as ...
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Bureaucracy: hit and myth
It appears that even the bureaucrats are bureausceptics now. One of the most conspicuous aspects of managers' reaction to the NHS white paper, The New NHS, has been that the proposed pounds1bn cuts in 'red tape' (ie cuts in the number of managers and administrators) hardly rated a mention.1 We ...
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IN BRIEF
Health secretary Frank Dobson said this week he was 'extremely concerned about the increasing tide of litigation besetting the health service' and that it was affecting the way doctors practised. He told the Commons select committee on public administration that he was looking for ways to 'prevent the health service ...
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IN BRIEF
Unison this week launched a campaign to encourage nurses in Scotland to stand for the Scottish and Westminster parliaments, health and trust boards and for local councils. Aiming for 200 nurses in 'positions of power' by 2000, Unison said nurses would be the biggest single group of staff working for ...
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DILEMMAS IN MODERN HEALTH CARE Edited by John Spiers Social Market Foundation - READY FOR TREATMENT Popular expectations and the future of health care By Nick Bosanquet and Stephen Pollard Social Mark
The Social Market Foundation may have some difficulty now with its title, and certainly the first volume shows that even its contributors scarcely echo Spiers' bold assertion of the 'successful and growing private sector' in the UK today.
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'Terror team' mastermind was former board manager
A former Scottish health board manager who masterminded a gang which carried out random attacks on strangers was jailed this week for four-and-a-half years.
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Better network
For the first of a four-part series on the public health green paper targets, Mark Gould visited Manchester to look at initiatives aimed at reducing suicides
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Betaferon results herald renewed funding warning
Clinicians sounded a fresh warning this week over NHS funding constraints after claims that drugs to treat multiple sclerosis could benefit twice as many patients as first thought.
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BY HOWARD BERLINER Premium rate calls
In his State of the Union address last month, President Clinton put forward the idea of allowing the 'near elderly' - those between the ages of 55 and 64 - to buy into Medicare.
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...BECAUSE THE EARLY INDICATIONS ARE THAT IT'S A GOOD IDEA
It is a curiously British disease to trash new initiatives before they start. Your coverage of the new nurse-led helpline, NHS Direct, seemed determined not to look on the bright side.
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Rolling back the years
The NHS may face a huge bill in backdated claims for pensions contributions. Pat Healy reports
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There for the asking
Can the government’s planned annual surveys really measure patient satisfaction? And what format should the questionnaire take, ask Shirley McIver and Philip Meredith
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Transport deal angers LAS
Pressure is building on the government to speed up its review of NHS competitive tendering after a private company won a pounds1m contract to provide non-emergency patient transport services to the Royal Hospitals trust in London.
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ALL CASES ARE SUITABLE FOR A CARING APPROACH
Thank heaven for a mental health professional who is prepared to challenge conventional wisdom concerning so-called personality disorders and a health authority which is prepared to put its money where its mouth is. Penelope Campling and the staff of Francis Dixon Lodge ('Suitable cases for treatment?', pages 34-35, 22 January) ...
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AFTER THE LONDON REVIEW, LET'S LOOK FORWARD TO THE RENAISSANCE OF THE COMMUNITY HOSPITAL
So the London review is out and decisions taken (News, page 3, 5 February). I hope the residents of south-west London can begin to take a positive view of the future for Roehampton Hospital, to be 'reduced to a community hospital' as the newspapers put it.
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Nurses slam HA advertisement
A health authority has been accused of misleading the public by placing a 'good news' advertisement in local papers.
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PERFORMANCE INDICATORS CAN BE TURNED TO EVERYONE'S ADVANTAGE
You report that a man with severe asthma had to wait 37 hours in casualty for a hospital bed (News, page 3, 29 January). You also report concerns about proposed performance indicators for the NHS (News Focus, pages 10-11, 29 January).